Bug 1132398 has now been fixed, so Sat 5.7 should ship with 1GB max memory and we should enable two worker threads once again. This should cut in half the amount of time required to regenerate channel repodata after a sat-sync or similar.
Committing to Spacewalk master: ada0bd920722e21c6054c71e26cd5def75a98c3e
NOTE: With the release of Red Hat Satellite 5.7 on January 12th 2015 this bug / feature is resolved. This bug was not verified (moved to RELEASE_PENDING) prior to release. As such, over the next week or so we plan to confirm the valiation that this was indeed fixed as part of the release and then move to Closed Current Release. The Satellite 5.7 GA Errata: - https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0033.html Satellite 5.7 Release Notes: - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Satellite/5.7/html-single/Release_Notes/index.html Satellite Customer Portal Blog announcement for release: - https://access.redhat.com/blogs/1169563/posts/1315743 Cliff